Siach Yitzchak.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $950

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author

CHAYUT, ISAAC.

printer

Mordechai Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1587

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated border, Kabbalistic diagrams throughout. With eight manuscript leaves appended at end of work in an Aschkenazic hand (dated 1633-34, see below).

references

Vinograd, Prague 54; Mehlman 915.

summary

A series of Kabbalistic poems with commentary, all of whose themes relate to the First Nights of Passover, including instructions and laws pertaining to the Seder. The appended manuscript leaves contains copies of sample Shtaroth (legal documents) for various occasions including: Tenaim, Kethubah, Chalitzah, documents realting to a loan, a will, an oath, quittance of debt, etc.

ff. 20. Title loose, browned. Later morocco, rubbed at edges. Sm. 4to.

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